1 Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where.
2 And we all took the less explicable step of engaging the parlor of a suite in the Plaza Hotel.
3 As for Tom, the fact that he "had some woman in New York" was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book.
4 Their interest rather touched me and made them less remotely rich--nevertheless, I was confused and a little disgusted as I drove away.
5 On the contrary they were merely casual events in a crowded summer and, until much later, they absorbed me infinitely less than my personal affairs.
6 Eckleburg kept their vigil but I perceived, after a moment, that other eyes were regarding us with peculiar intensity from less than twenty feet away.
7 I lived at West Egg, the--well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.
8 I stared at him and then at Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before--and it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
9 I suppose there'd be a curious crowd around there all day with little boys searching for dark spots in the dust and some garrulous man telling over and over what had happened until it became less and less real even to him and he could tell it no longer and Myrtle Wilson's tragic achievement was forgotten.